Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Man is not made for defeat.
It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.
I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
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